GAIA Seminar on Complex Analytic Geometry - Ae-Ryeong Seo

- Abstract: In this talk, I will generalize the Kobayashi pseudo-distance to complex manifolds which admit holomorphic bracket generating distributions. The generalization is based on Chow's theorem in sub-Riemannian geometry. For a complex homogeneous manifold with an invariant holomorphic bracket generating distribution, the universal covering of $M$ is a canonical flag domain under certain condition.